Using Your Portable Studio

**Illsidgus** · 02-04-2013

I just received the book "Using Your Portable Studio" by Peter McIan, through the mail. It only took four days from the time I ordered it till I received it. Anyway, I just spent maybe 15 minutes looking through it and already my knowledge base increased by at least 10 percent. I am looking forward to studying this tome in detail.

Have any of you read this book and found it helpful? Give me your thoughts good or bad, if you have any. It is interesting to note that the unit pictured on the cover the book is a TASCAM 488 MKII.

**A Reel Person** · 02-04-2013

It's a good book & very thorough. This book and others by Peter McIan are kind of old school and pre DAW. Great for hands on analog.

**coreytx** · 02-04-2013

The author is also funny, so it's an entertaining read.

**j.harv** · 02-08-2013

I've had this book for a couple years now and I think it's great.
Im always refering to it.

**diggy_dude** · 02-08-2013

I just ordered it. Been wanting to play around with my 424 Mk II lately.

**famous beagle** · 02-08-2013

Yeah this book and his other one, Musicians Guide to Home Recording, are always in my bedside table, and I flip through them often. When I'm tracking, I'll usually take them with me for reference. There's actually a lot of common information between the two books, but the Musicians Guide focuses a lot on reel to reels and the workings/maintenance of them, etc. But much of the information regarding recording/EQing/processing instruments is similar.

In short, they're great books, and they're some of my staples.